An Interesting Week With Devastating Results

(Note: If you want cliff notes to this post, scroll down to the bottom.)

A lot has happened this past weekend. Not sure where I should start. Okay, start with Friday.

The day started off with the 12:30 PLO8 on Stars. Usual size field, almost always between 450-550. Chipped up slowly, in the money at 2nd break, about 24 left at 3rd break. About 15 minutes into the 4th hour, 11th of 20 left, busted on this hand:

*********** # 211 **************
PokerStars Game #19462505491: Tournament #99188747, $2.00+$0.20 Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2008/08/08 - 16:25:38 (ET)
Table '99188747 22' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: fasteddie969 (31778 in chips)
Seat 2: SKIPPYM (62172 in chips)
Seat 3: 66Buffalo66 (26530 in chips) <---- Hero
Seat 4: momneedhouse (3898 in chips)
Seat 5: uk-Heller (53763 in chips)
Seat 7: pacerookie (41983 in chips)
Seat 9: LEAPFROG1357 (16700 in chips)
pacerookie: posts small blind 1000
LEAPFROG1357: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 66Buffalo66 [Ac 5h 3c 9s]
fasteddie969: calls 2000
SKIPPYM: folds
66Buffalo66: calls 2000
momneedhouse: folds
uk-Heller: calls 2000
pacerookie: calls 1000
LEAPFROG1357: checks
*** FLOP *** [8d 9c As] <---- Top 2 pair, medium/strong low draw.
pacerookie: checks
LEAPFROG1357: checks
fasteddie969: checks
66Buffalo66: bets 8000
uk-Heller: folds
pacerookie: folds
LEAPFROG1357: folds
fasteddie969: raises 21778 to 29778 and is all-in <---- Goes in the tank, then raises.
66Buffalo66: calls 16530 and is all-in <---- Hero calls
Uncalled bet (5248) returned to fasteddie969
*** TURN *** [8d 9c As] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [8d 9c As Th] [Td] <---- Runner runner tens gives him better kicker.
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fasteddie969: shows [Js 3d 5s Ad] (HI: two pair, Aces and Tens) <---- Same low draw, he was behind when money went in.
66Buffalo66: shows [Ac 5h 3c 9s] (HI: two pair, Aces and Tens - lower kicker) <---- I put my money in as a 67/33 favorite. I scoop/quarter him 203 of 298 times there.
fasteddie969 collected 59060 from pot
No low hand qualified
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 59060 | Rake 0
Board [8d 9c As Th Td]
Seat 1: fasteddie969 showed [Js 3d 5s Ad] and won (59060) with HI: two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 2: SKIPPYM folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: 66Buffalo66 showed [Ac 5h 3c 9s] and lost with HI: two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 4: momneedhouse folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: uk-Heller (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: pacerookie (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: LEAPFROG1357 (big blind) folded on the Flop

So for 3.25 hours work, I cashed for a whopping $6.42 on a bad beat.

Friday night I was grinding some SNG's on Stars. Signed up for a NLHE turbo, and much to my surprise Victor Ramdin is sitting two seats to my right.



Even though this was a micro donk SNG, there were plenty of rail birds watching. On the 4th or 5th hand, VR goes all in pre-flop UTG with TT! Of course he gets a call with over cards and it holds up. I'm still flummoxed that this can be considered a good play under any circumstances. (Even if you are a sponsored pro.)

The SNG was uneventful for me, I lost 2 races w/ KK and finished 5th. Didn't stick around to see if VR won.

Finally, I played fantasy sports all weekend. Friday was a mild loser, nothing unusual. However, Saturday was 0-23 and Sunday was 0-12, which pretty much crushed my bankroll on FSL. I played Kaiseroll13 on Saturday pretty heavy and he ran like God. I believe he had the highest scoring player that day at 7 of the 9 positions. That is running goot, my friend.

I spread the games out (cap wise) and varied the rosters a little but it was no dice. There were no other opponents available to play against. As I have stated before, he cock blocked me in the lobby, leaving only himself as an option in HU play.

I'll write more about this later, but a few thoughts about going on a big losing bender (pretty much exclusively against one opponent.):

-I might have been due. I had 10 winning months and one losing month. Hell, I might get lucky and salvage August. It's still early.
-After losing 95% of my bankroll last weekend, I'm still playing with house money, as they say. Even with the swings, FSL has still made me money.
-It seems that multi-player contests are the way to go given the circumstances. It's the only way I can face the softer opponents regularly. Unfortunately, multis cannot be played for volume.

So here's hoping I have a better week. More thoughts to follow.

SYNOPSIS: I went deep in a PLO8 tournament. Went out on a bad beat. I played against a Poker Stars pro in a SNG. I thought he played bad even though he did better than myself. I went 0-35 in fantasy contests this weekend and lost almost all of my fantasy bankroll. Regrouping as I type this. More later.